Hide Me Among the Graves by Tim Powers

Powers has always been a writer of considerable depth, and in Hide Me Among the Graves he returns vampires firmly to the genre of horror rather than romance with a story which is strongly written and reminiscent of the best work of Dan Simmons or Ramsey Campbell.
-Blog Critics

From Last Call to On Stranger Tides to Declare to Three Days to Never, any book by the inimitable Tim Powers is a wonder. With Hide Me Among the Graves, it’s possible that the uniquely ingenious Powers has surpassed even himself. A breathtaking historical thriller in which art and the supernatural collide, Hide Me Among the Graves transports readers back to mid-19th century London and features a reformed ex-prostitute, a veterinarian, and the vampire ghost of Lord Byron’s onetime physician, uncle to poet Christina Rossetti and her brother, the painter Dante Gabriel Rossetti. A novel that, like all his others, is virtually impossible to pidgeonhole—or to resist—Hide Me Among the Graves is the taut, gripping, and utterly remarkable literary thrill ride that Tim Powers fans have been eagerly waiting for.

Tim Powers is the author of numerous novels including Last Call, Declare, Three Days to Never, and On Stranger Tides, the inspiration for the blockbuster film Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, starring Johnny Depp and Penelope Cruz. Powers lives in San Bernardino, California.

Blog Critics

Reviewed by Dave Nalle

Powers has always been a writer of considerable depth, and in Hide Me Among the Graves he returns vampires firmly to the genre of horror rather than romance with a story which is strongly written and reminiscent of the best work of Dan Simmons or Ramsey Campbell.

NPR

Reviewed by Michael Schaub
on
Mar 22 2012

Powers knows how to temper terror with humor, and he knows something that a lot of adventure writers never learn: Without well-rounded, fully realized characters, it doesn't matter how good your concept is.

Lincoln Journal Star

Locus Mag

Reviewed by Gary K. Wolfe
on
Mar 14 2012

Meticulous as always in his research, Powers also draws an engaging portrait of London itself, with its dire poverty contrasted with the newly finished Thames embankment, an emblem of a landscape increasingly transformed by Victorian engineering and optimism.

Thinking About Books

Reviewed by David Marshall
on
Mar 12 2012

Hide Me Among the Graves is a completely fascinating historical novel set in a beautifully realised alternate London where supernatural forces are threatening the lives of both the talented and the ordinary folk in cataclysmic destruction.